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is an X11 based presentation tool. It is designed to make simple presentations
easy while to make complicated presentations possible. Its presentation
file is just text so that you can create presentation files quickly with
your favorite editor (such as Emacs). The file consists of text and control
commands (such as pagebreak, centering, and/or inline image). Control commands
are specified on the beginning of lines started with one sign. You can
include numerous kinds of image format files onto the presentation file.
uses Japanese/English fonts in various sizes. uses X11 scalable fonts
provided by X11 servers. can also utilize the Japanese outline font library,
"VFlib", if configured to do so at compilation time. The following options
are available: Set background color to (The default value is black)
Specify a VFlib configuration file. Demonstration mode. Browse all page
quickly and terminate. Specify the font name to be used by VFlib. (The default
value is minsl) Set the size and location of the window. Please note that
implies will not override the window manager if you specify the geometry.
Display the usage and exit without performing a presentation. There are
two kind of fonts available by VFlib; They are outline font and bitmap
font. By specifying you can disable the use of outline fonts. accepts
any key inputs from invoked terminal as KEY OPERATION described below.
disables this feature. (This option may be removed in the future release)
Do not override window manager. (By default, overrides window manager
and occupies the whole display) Start presentation from rather than the
first page. Do not beep on errors. Specify the timeslot assigned to the
presentation in minute. The timer is invoked when the second page is displayed
and the remaining presentation time is indicated by the length of bar shown
at the bottom of the display. The timebar is updated when some X11 event
is raised, for instance some keypress. Timebar will be green if you have
more than 50% of the timeslot, yellow while you have more than 30% of the
timeslot, and red for the other cases. When the assigned timeslot is expired,
exceeding time is also shown as a timebar growing from left to right. Current
page is indicated by the position of a small vertical bar; the vertical
bar is drawn at the leftend when the first page is displayed while the
bar is drawn at the rightend when the last page is displayed. Display the
MagicPoint version and exit without performing a presentation. specifies
the working directory used for store embedded images if any. To generate
an embedded MGP file, use Do not use rendering engine, specified by
can be or Omit background image. Use private colormap. Generate html
pages of the presentation into You will need (included in mgp kit), and
and included in and Independent Jpeg Group package Specifies html
image type. Now "jpg" and "png" are supported. default value is "jpg". It
works when -D option is set. Specifies forward page cache options. and
are numbers. specifies caching mode. 0 means caching is executed after
2 seconds idle. 1 means caching is executed immediately. specifies 'special
effect' for the forward page cache. Currently, two special effects are supported.
1 means that the next page will come in from the left side. 2 means that
the current page will go out to the left side. 0 means no special effect.
specifies speed of special effect. 1 means the highest speed. A higher
value for decreases effect speed. Specifies to turn on page guide function.
At the bottom of the screen, the titles of next page and previous page
are displayed to assist the presentation. Page guide can be turned on and
off by keyboard too. Obey to the window manager, but with less decoration
around the window. The behavior of this option is affected by how the window
manager is implemented; this option may have no effect on some of the window
managers. Set background image quality(0-100). will usually reload the
presentation file if it gets updated, based on the file modification time
taken by disables this auto-reloading feature. Be secure. Skip directives
that fork/exec the child process. It is suggested to use this option if
you got some presentation file from others. If the option is specified,
will modify the content of every time it updates the presentation window.
This option is useful for external process to understand when modifies
the window. Be verbose. Generate debugging output to standard output. sometimes
invokes to render postscript images. enables you to specify the device
to be used by
with a trailing '+', and will be invoked
for anti-aliasing. The default is "pnmraw+".
The keyboard/mouse
commands are: Go forward a page. Space key, downward cursor key, scroll
down key, "f" key, "j" key, and "n" key have the same effect. If <number>
is specified, go forward <number> pages. Go to the previous page. "b" key,
"k" key, "p" key, backspace key, scroll up key and upward cursor key have
the same effect. If <number> is specified, go back <number> pages. Set prefix
number in decimal. i.e. <number> = <number> * 10 + <keyN> - <key0>. For example, by
typing in "10g" you can jump to page 10. Go to the <number> page. If number
of 0 is specified, go to the last page. Display the page listing menu. See
below for details. Enable/disable page guide. See description for option
for details. Enable/disable rakugaki (jotting) mode. You can make an annotation
(by mouse) on the presentation. Mouse button 2 (middle) has the same effect.
Change the pen color for rakugaki (jotting) mode. Enable/disable the timebar
if -t timeslot option is specified. Enable/disable forward page cache. Repaint
the current page. Use this if you messed up the page by jotting too much.
Reload the current presentation file. If the current page becomes unavailable,
page pointer will be moved back to 1. Quit the currently running "q" key
also has the same effect. During the presentation, you can see the page
list at the bottom of the window when you press a Control Key. Choosing
a page with the mouse and clicking it with the leftmost mouse button, you
can go to corresponding page directly. Releasing the Control Key, the page
list disappears and you can continue with the current page. This function
is useful during the Q-and-A period after your presentation completes.
will look at a file named in your home directory. The content of
the file must be a limited set of magicpoint directives, one directive
per line, without sign. Lines start with or empty lines, will be silently
ignored. See for eligible directives. imports various image draw functions
from This means that the location of image files can be specified by
file. If you specify the presentation file with its directory, that directory
is searched first and then the path specified in the is searched.
The presentation file can include directives to call the external
process, just like shell process. Therefore, the presentation file should
be treated just like shell script or perl script. This is STRONGLY recommended
to review the content of the presentation file before invoking if you
got the file from others. By adding the option to the command line argument,
directives that call external processes will be skipped.
Yoshifumi Nishida <nishida@csl.sony.co.jp>
Jun-ichiro Hagino
<itojun@itojun.org>, Akira Kato <kato@wide.ad.jp>, Atsushi Onoe <onoe@sm.sony.co.jp>,
Kazu Yamamoto <Kazu@Mew.org>, Youjiro Uo <yuo@nui.org>, and Masaki Minami <Masaki@Minami.org>
extensively contributed improvements, bug fixes, and documents. Special
thanks to Chaki Kusakari <chaki@sfc.wide.ad.jp>.
was created shortly
after the autumn camp of WIDE Project in 1997, which was originally called
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